Westport_station_(Connecticut)

Westport station (Metro-North)

Westport station (Metro-North)

Railroad station in Westport, Connecticut, US


Westport station (also known as Saugatuck station) is a commuter rail stop on the Metro-North Railroad's New Haven Line, located in Westport, Connecticut. It is located in the center of the Saugatuck section of town, a few miles south of downtown Westport, and is one of two stations serving Westport. The station was named Westport & Saugatuck in timetables of the New Haven Railroad and the early years of its corporate successor, Penn Central.

Quick Facts General information, Location ...

Station layout

The station has two high-level side platforms serving the outer tracks of the four-track Northeast Corridor. The northern (New York-bound) platform is nine cars long, while the southern platform is ten cars long.[4]:21

The station has 1,454 parking spaces, 1,126 of them owned by the state.[5] The ticket office at the station was closed on July 7, 2010; tickets must be purchased from vending machines adjacent to the platforms.[6]


References

  1. "Special Express Notice". The Evening Post. New York, New York. February 12, 1849. p. 3. Retrieved December 9, 2019 via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  2. Jenkins, Stephen (1912). The Story of the Bronx from the Purchase Made by the Dutch from the Indians in 1639 to the Present Day. New York, New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. p. 235.
  3. Metro-North 2018 Weekday Station Boardings. Metro-North Railroad Market Analysis/Fare Policy Group. April 2019. p. 6.
  4. "Task 2: Technical Memorandum parking Inventory and Utilization: Final Report" submitted by Urbitran Associates Inc. to the Connecticut Department of Transportation, "Table 1: New haven Line Parking Capacity and Utilization", page 6, July 2003

Media related to Westport station (Metro-North) at Wikimedia Commons


Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Westport_station_(Connecticut), and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.